Using Padlet for Collaborative Writing among ESL Learners

Using Coh-Metrix to Analyze Chinese ESL Learners’ Writing

Scoring essays is costly, laborious and time-consuming. Automated scoring of essays is a promising approach to face this challenge. Coh-Metrix is a computer tool that reports on cohesion, sentence complexity, lexical sophistication and other descriptive features at sentenceand paragraph-level. It has been widely used to analyze native English speakers’ essay writing. However, few studies have u...

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Using Digital Comics in Teaching ESL Writing

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning language is one of the popular approaches employed in education and is said to be a beneficial tool in language teaching and learning. The digital comics can be implemented in teaching and learning process with the purpose to motivate low proficiency students in writing skill. This study aimed to examine the teac...

Grammar, Writing, and Technology: A Sample Technology-supported Approach to Teaching Grammar and Improving Writing for ESL Learners

English language learners are frequently unable to benefit from the prevailing process-writing approaches due to a lack of grammar and vocabulary knowledge relevant to academic writing. This paper describes how the need for explicit grammar instruction as part of preparing students to write can be addressed by using a collection of learner texts and transforming that collection into an online g...

Using Online Corpora Databases to Improve ESL Writing

This paper summerizes the technical specifications and design principles of an online search tool we developed to help English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in certain aspects of writing. The problem we identified is the confusion caused by either first language interference (L1 interference) whereby literal translation erroneously combines with English words, or because certain words in ...